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Commission: End of the Recovery and Resilience Facility is Approaching
In its Communication "NextGenerationEU - The road to 2026", the European Commission takes stock of the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) and provides guidance to the EU Member States to ensure the Facility's successful closure in 2026. The RRF is the … Read more
Thomas Wahl
EU
Commission
Protection of Financial Interests
Annual Report 2024: Frontex Consultative Forum on Fundamental Rights
On 10 June 2025, the Frontex Consultative Forum on Fundamental Rights published its twelfth Annual Report. The report outlines the main observations and recommendations that the Consultative Forum shared with Frontex and its management board throughout 2024, with the aim of strengthening the protection of … Read more
Cornelia Riehle LL.M.
EU
Fundamental Rights
Frontex
Commission Launches Import Surveillance Tool to Counter Trade Diversion
At the beginning of June 2025, the European Commission announced that it launched a new import surveillance tool to protect the EU from harmful trade diversion and sudden surges in imports redirected from high-tariff markets. Building on customs data, the tool provides fact-based information to … Read more
Dr. Anna Pingen
EU
Commission
Customs Cooperation
Ombudsman Inquires Commission's Failure to Carry Out Impact Assessment for Anti-Smuggling Package
Following a complaint by civil society organisations, European Ombudsman Teresa Anjinho opened an inquiry into the Commission's decision not to carry out an impact assessment on two legislative proposals to combat migrant smuggling. Read more
EU
Legislation
Trafficking in Human Beings
Eurojust Annual Report 2024
On 15 May 2025, Eurojust published its Annual Report for the year 2024. In 2024, Eurojust particularly expanded its global network, e.g. strengthening partnerships with Latin American countries. Compared to 2023, Eurojust's case workload increased. Read more
EU
Eurojust
Judicial Cooperation
Waste Shipment Enforcement Group Launched
On 22/23 May 2025, the Waste Shipment Enforcement Group (WSEG) was launched. The Group is foreseen in the 2024 Waste Shipment Regulation and constitutes a forum for sharing relevant information for the prevention and detection of illegal shipments, including information and intelligence on trends in illegal shipments and experience, knowledge and best practices on enforcement. Read more
EU
OLAF
Environmental Crime
ECJ: No Obligation for Mutual Recognition of Decision Taken in Favour of a Person Requested for Extradition to a Third Country
On 19 June 2025, the ECJ ruled that an authority of an EU Member State is not obliged to mutually recognise a decision taken in another EU Member State that refused extradition of an individual to a third state. However, it must take due account of the reasons of this previous decision in its own assessment of a possible refusal on the ground of fundamental rights. Read more
EU
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
European Arrest Warrant
Judicial Cooperation
Operation ENDGAME Targets Initial Access Malware
At the end of May 2025, Operation ENDGAME, ongoing since 2024, led to the takedown of Initial Access Malware. This malware was being used for initial infection, helping cybercriminals to enter victims’ systems unnoticed and download more malware, such as ransomware, onto their devices. … Read more
EU
Europol
Eurojust
Cybercrime
Judicial Cooperation
Law Enforcement Cooperation
Genocide Network Changes Name
At the end of May 2025, alongside the launch of a new logo, the network changed its short name from "Genocide Network" to "Genocide Prosecution Network". The network's secretariat is hosted at Eurojust since 2011. The change of the name clarifies that the network's focus is on providing support to investigations and prosecutions of core international crimes. Read more
EU
Eurojust
EPPO Cooperation with Latin American Countries
At the end of May 2025, the EPPO and the Ibero-American Association of Public Prosecutors (AIAMP) signed an agreement to enhance their strategic cooperation. The EPPO also signed bilateral agreements with the Public Prosecutor’s Offices of six AIAMP members in Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, Costa … Read more
EU
European Public Prosectutor's Office (EPPO)
CoE Adopts 2025–2030 Environmental Strategy
The Council of Europe adopted its Strategy on the Environment 2025–2030, setting out a forward-looking vision that links environmental protection with the organisation’s core values of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. Read more
Council of Europe
Environmental Crime
Statewatch: The EU Security AI Complex Must Be Questioned
In April 2025, Statewatch published a report entitled "Automating Authority - Artificial Intelligence in European Police and Border Regimes". The report explores the scene how police, border and criminal justice agencies take advantage of AI tools for their daily work and how the EU creates … Read more
EU
Fundamental Rights
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Police Cooperation
MEPs Block Interinstitutional Ethics Body
On 14 May 2025, the European Parliament's Constitutional Affairs Committee (AFCO) voted against the European Parliaments's participation in the interinstitutional ethics body. MEPs argued that argued that the body “would violate the presumption of innocence and publicly stigmatize politicians". Read more
EU
European Parliament
Corruption
Spotlight ECA Summarises its Criticism of Recovery and Resilience Facility
In its review "Performance-orientation, accountability and transparency – lessons to be learned from the weaknesses of the RRF", issued on 6 May 2025, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) takes another critical look at the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). Read more
EU
Protection of Financial Interests
First EPPO Verdict in Dutch Court
In May 2025, the first verdict by a Dutch court was handed down in a case that was investigated and prosecuted by the EPPO in Rotterdam. The case concerned cross-border VAT carousel fraud related to trade with consumer electronics, causing an estimated damage of over … Read more
EU
European Public Prosectutor's Office (EPPO)
AG: EDPS Has Right to Act against Europol Regulation Amendments
In an opinion, delivered on 8 May 2025, Advocate General Sánchez-Bordona proposed that the European Data Protection Supervisor should have the right to action against amendments to the Europol Regulation concerning the processing of personal data by Europol. Read more
EU
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)
Europol
European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)